The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-02-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE debt of Canada is $500 100000.

A SOUTHERN fur company wants 100000
! cats.
A CoAI-BLAoK deer has been seen near
Chico, Cal.
Norwich, Conn.,, has a family namea
| Skeesucks.
THERE are 6O33 Grand Army posts in the
| United States.
| WoLF-scALP legislation is engaging the
Dakota salons.
A BILL in the Texas Legislature proposes
to outlaw bar bills.
BAKER County, Ore, is larger than any
New England State
MASON BEY is now the only American il
the Egyptian service.
ILLINOIS is not only out Of debt, but ha,
sSO0,0OO in its treasury.
| A SPANIARD has turned the whole Bible
into poetry, 100000 stanzas.
GENERAL PLEAsANToN was in 105 battles;
| but never received wound.
A COAL train of eighteen cars was blown
from the track near Denver, Col.
The business of the United States
Supreme Court is four years behind.
A son of Kit Carson resides in Los An
geles, and is struggling with poverty.
TENNYsoN's eyesight is failing him to.
such an extent as to cause serious alarm.
ARKANSAS proposes to raise the price
OF her State bonds and wipe out the State
| debt.
The Chinese claim to have used natural
| gas in the manufacture of terra Gotta long,
| long ago.
1T is said that the area of winter wheat
is decreasing and the area of spring wheat
increasing.
SIX gunnery instructors have been lent
to the Chinese Government by the British
Admiralty.
WHILE excavating IN Rome house de-
clared to be Of the third century has been
discovered.
A SANDUsKY man tipped up trade dol.
lar, which descended into pet dog, agape
at the time.
! A HIGH-LIcENsE bill has been introduced
in the Minnesota Legislature 1t fixes the
license at 81 900.
| THE entire Okefnokee swamp, in Geor.
gia and Florida, can be bought for about
VIII oOhOS POI dSIc.
| "CoAL OIL JOHNNIE" STEELE, once mil.
lionaire, is now in jail as vsgrant at
Mount Holly N. j.
DANIEL DoUGHERTY, the Phi. adelphia
lawyer, has declined to act as co lnsel for
the Chicago Anarchists.
The Missouri Legislature will ty its fine
Italian hand at the bill for the sur preston
! of Pinkerton detectives.
PonCEMEN and fremen in New York re.
ceived over half million dollars from the
city as pension last year.
TEXAS contemplates placing 100000
acres of her university lands in the hands
OF agents for sale or lease.
| GOVERNOR PIERCE, of Dakota, rendered
his resignation to the President which was
accepted to take effect at once.
THE Kansas Legislature is wrestling
with capital removal scheme. It is to
take it any where out of Topeka.
The Car has paid 5000, 600 for the famous
Galitzin collection of paintings for the Her.
mitage gallery at st. Petersburg.
THE owner of the Miller car,coupler has
begun suit for infringement against the
Pennsylvania railroad for 100000.
The New York State Senate has passed
the bill to make September legal holi.
day, to be known as Labor day."
THE Dakota Legislature continues tc
make war on the railroads. They want
railways assessed as individuals are.
The great bronze door of the east front
entrance of the rotunda of the Capitol
weighs 10000 pounds, and cost $2S,OOO.
| CONGRESS passed an amended bill by
which 100000 is appropriated for the build.
ing of a new barracks at Newport, KY.
A MARSH near Cape May, j., is being
searched for Captain Kidd's supposed
buried treasures by some people of that
city.
THEY have toboggan slide at Bismarck,
d. T., where it is said the steel-shod to-
boggans acquire velocity of three miles
a minute.
IHE appropriations made by Congress,
from 1900 to date, for the erection and re-
modelling of the Capitol, amount to over
5,0OO,0OO.
RECENT visitors to General Sam. Hous.
toms grave, at Huntsville, Texas, could
with difficulty find it, as it is overgrown
with weeds.
ACCORDING to recent English expert
ments it is found that growth of ivy over
a house renders the interior entirely free
from moisture.
Dr. TUCKER, Of Brooklyn, paid 1915 for
first choice of the pews in Talmage's
church, selecting the same one for which
he paid $76O last year.
AFTER an absence of two years and nine
days pet squirrel returned to Daniel Dan
ner, of Mattison, Mich, and took up ita
quarters in its old cage
HIRAM SIBlAY, the wealthy scotsman, Of
Rochester, N. Y; is about to give $3.50, 600
to Cornell University to enlarge the Sibley
College of Mechanic Arts. ~
A CRIMINAL was bailed out in New York
the other day who vows he wouldn't have
the process repeated for $1,000. 1t wa,
done with stomach pump.
A VERY efficacious and celebrated Rus
sian patent medicine was recently ana
lyzed. 1t was found to be nothing bu
water from the river Nova.
A HERD of buffaloes were seen a. Painted
Woods, near Bismarck, recently-the first
seen in two years. They were driven hum
dreds of miles by the storm.
THE grave of Edmond About, in the
cemetery of Pere la Chaise, is never with
out its bouquet Of flowers, placed there by
the widow of the dead author.
The Emperor of China is the shortest
] monarch in the world, being only five feet
ALL L.